Loving your neighbor makes you a Good Neighbor St. Luke’s 2025 Youth Mission Trip

Good Neighbors is a 501c3 charity focused on changing lives through Purposeful Relationships and Positive Experiences. Their work centers around the belief that: It is possible to make a lasting difference through serving others - a belief that they have seen become a reality, time and time again, through their ministry.

Located in Eastern Kentucky, an area rich in natural resources, natural beauty, unique culture, and musical talent. It is also an area in which extreme poverty exists along with a high rate of people receiving government assistance. Good Neighbors help the people who are the working poor and are not receiving government assistance.

There is another story, however, untold by the statistics and overlooked by government programs... and this is where our "Good Samaritan" story begins:

Good Neighbors help working-poor families who have been "Mugged by Life" – whose resources are enough to provide for their family on a daily basis, but not enough to repair a home that is falling apart around them.

Good Neighbors relies on people sharing their time to tend to the homes and those who live in them. It is funded through tax-deductible contributions from individuals and businesses. Funding does not come from government grants, nor do the mission trip fees cover all the expenses necessary to repair families homes. In a nutshell, Good Neighbors are funded by good neighbors - and it doesn't take a lot to make a big difference!

St. Luke’s students experienced this firsthand. The twelve participants were divided into 3 teams of 4, each with an adult and three students. Each crew was directed by a Good Neighbor Staff member who served as the Site Project Coordinator. Pictured below are the crews.

The work was important, but also were the relationships built between the homeowner, the Good Neighbor Staff, the local community, one another, and God. As one student said during our closing worship, “This was the most important thing I did all summer.” 

Thank you St. Luke’s for helping these students and adult leaders live out our mission,
“St. Luke’s is a Welcoming and Growing Community of Faith, busy Making Christ Known to the World.”
Look forward to having you hear the students’ stories in a celebration worship later in the year.
​Ongoing prayers and blessings…